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Through nine torturous innings the 37-year-old Milwaukee southpaw, working with only two days rest, dueled with three different Yankee pitchers only to lose in the 10th. Singles by Elston Howard and Yogi Berra finished him off, and the Yankees added the all-important extra run on Bill Skowron's single off relief pitcher Don McMahon...
Although Casey wouldn't give out a definite lineup, he said he was thinking of having Yogi Berra catch Ford...
...know baseball best turned a collective cold shoulder on two of the fans' perennial favorites: Boston's Ted Williams (batting .298 at week's end) and New York's Yogi Berra (.217). New faces popped up everywhere in the lineups. Only one man was everybody's choice: St. Louis' Stan ("The Man") Musial was a unanimous pick (discounting a lone myopic dissenter) for National League first baseman...
...First Game belonged to a squat pro named Lawrence Peter Berra. All season Catcher Yogi has been floundering through a batting slump, never getting his average up much above his weight (192 Ibs.). But when he does hit, he still has his Yankee habit of making his hits count. His three-run homer in the eighth inning broke up the game, and the Yankees coasted home...
What could be done? A yogi sent word that he could clear matters up in 30 minutes: "Ghosts scatter at my very presence," said he. "I can make oranges fly in the air." But the school decided on a new tack, at long last called in a physician. Last week the school was carrying out the doctor's recommendations by tearing down part of the big wall and giving the girls a little more freedom and fun. But just in case medical science failed, it also took the precaution of proclaiming 30 straight days of prayer to ask protection...